Together Retro Special Weekend Edition: Diablo II
Presented by: Â Ivo, and Racketboy
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What’s The Deal With This “Special Weekend Edition”?
The idea was basically to play with other members of our community rather than with unknown people. Anyone interested in this is welcome to join channel “racketboy” on Battle.net’s US East. Other members will hopefully gather in that channel before / between games, or try directly joining games named “racketboy”, (or, if there’s need for it “racketboy1” etc), with password “retro”.
Although anyone is obviously free to join whenever and create their “racketboy” games, without set times and dates it is relatively unlikely that many people will be online to play together – for this reason we decided to make this blog post to give the idea more notoriety, and also to suggest weekend “official” sessions, which I decided dub with a silly name to help people remember it: ORDERS (“Official” Racketboy Diablo 2 East Revival Sessions).
The Goal
The idea is to play D2+LoD from start to finish with the same party of seven players, one with each class (details: normal difficulty only, Ladder characters on Battle.net’s realm US East. Those characters are meant to only be used in the group sessions, until it is finished when you can then use them for anything else)
When To Play
I’m counting on two Sundays. I want to start on the Sunday 13th, and conclude on Sunday 20th (we might have to play a bit more to complete Act 5 on the 20th).
Starting Time of First Session
9:30 EST = 15:30 BST = 14:30 GMT
(then after finishing Act 1 on the session 1 (13th) we decide together how much time we need for a break and reconvene for Act 2;
the session 3 (20th) starts again at 9:30 EST, and we decide how much time until we reconvene for Act 4, and Act 5.
Depending on how long each Act takes us, we don’t need to be too strict in this other than everyone showing up on the STARTING TIME)
Further Details
This concept was kinda a spontaneous idea, so not all the information has been finalized for this post. Â Check these forum threads for more discussion of times, teams, and other details…
Finding Diablo II In Retail
Even though the game has been around for a while, you should be able to find it in just about any major retailer that sells games. Â This includes the likes of Wal-Mart, Target, and GameStop. Â You will probably be most likely to find the Diablo II Battle Chest.
How To Play Diablo II
Instead of spending too much time trying to explain the games, check out these guides at the useful StrategyWiki
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So excited, I’ll be there with a new Bowazon. Great idea!
Just to clarify something (because confusion has been frequent in the threads 🙂 ):…
People don’t necessarily need to adhere to the “7 player teams” mode of play. If you just want to play with some character of the class you prefer, try hanging out at the “racketboy” channel as mentioned, or join the “racketboy / retro” games.
The 7 player thing is sort of separate, I doubt there will be more than one running, and now there is a thread specifically for organizing that.
I’ll be your Summonancer! Are we starting from lvl 1? I can join in, although it will be a very early morning thanks to timezones!
By the way, are we going to do a lucky draw of seven people or just have multiple games (provided that more than seven people join)?
I may have to do this. For some reason I never got hooked on Diablo 2. Though I was a HUGE Diablo 1 addict for a long time.
Or maybe we’re too console-centric 🙂
(off topic!)
Any chance you’ll be making more 21 pin saturn mod chips any time in the future?
i have heard so many stories of people firing up diablo 2 again after a long hiatus after hearing about the release of diablo 3 (myself included).
i wish i had read this sooner because i just recently created an account on us west.